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Félix seeks to empower Latinos in the US to care for what matters most back home. #JuntosWeSucceed
The Role
Lead full-cycle recruiting for Compliance, Finance, Biz Ops, and Consumer Ops across the US and Latin America. Build and scale talent pipelines, improve hiring workflows, coach interview panels, manage ATS data (Gem), and use market data to advise hiring decisions while ensuring excellent candidate experience.
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What We Offer
Equal Opportunity Employer
At Félix, we're building the financial ecosystem for Latin immigrants in the U.S., starting with a revolution in remittances. Our core product is an AI-powered chatbot built on WhatsApp, allowing our users to send money home as easily as sending a text message. We leverage cutting-edge technology like AI, blockchain, and stablecoins to make cross-border payments faster, more affordable, and more accessible than ever before.
We are a hyper-growth Series B company, backed by over $100 million in funding from top-tier global investors, including QED, Castle Island, Switch Ventures, HTwenty, Monashees, and General Catalyst Customer Value Fund. This isn't just about the numbers; it's a testament to the trust our investors have in our vision and our team. Additionally, Félix was selected as an “Endeavour Entrepreneur” and was a recipient of the CrossTech Fintech Startups Award. We are a group of extremely talented and dedicated high-performers, united by our shared obsession with a single goal: empowering our customers. We are all owners of Félix, driven by a bias for action and a true experimentation spirit to get shit done with urgency and focus.
Joining Félix means you will be part of a team building a legacy, a company that will outlive us all. This is a rare opportunity to apply your skills to a deeply meaningful mission—serving a community that has been underserved for too long. We are a team that is fiercely loyal to each other, where radical transparency and constructive feedback are how we grow and push for excellence. We are bold, we care less about what others are doing and more about creating sustainable value and a product that truly makes our users' lives better. We are building the future, today.
Join our Talent Acquisition team as the first Senior Recruiter and play a pivotal role in scaling the Félix engine! You will be the strategic talent partner responsible for identifying, engaging, and hiring world-class professionals across our Compliance, Finance, Biz Ops, and Consumer Ops teams across both the US and Latin America markets.
Beyond filling key roles, you will be a strategic driver in maturing and scaling our talent attraction operations during the high-growth phase. You'll use data and market intelligence to advise teams on hiring decisions, coach interview panels, streamline workflows, and establish best-in-class recruitment practices. Operating with full ownership and autonomy, you will proactively spot talent gaps and architect robust pipelines to solve both our immediate hiring needs and our long-term organizational goals.
- Strategic Talent Partnership: Act as a trusted talent partner to the hiring managers across Compliance, Finance, Biz Ops, and Consumer Ops, utilizing deep market data to influence hiring decisions.
- Full-Cycle Execution: Fully own and drive the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for specialized business and regulatory roles across both the US and Latin America regions.
- Operational Scaling & Optimization: Continually audit and streamline our hiring workflows to eliminate friction, scale best-in-class talent practices, and improve overall hiring quality.
- Interview Coaching: Coach and upskill hiring managers and interview panels on unbiased evaluation and structural interviewing techniques to raise our talent bar.
- Data Hygiene: Treat our ATS (Gem) as a single source of truth. Build, analyze, and present pipeline data and talent market insights to proactively flag roadblocks and optimize conversion funnels.
- Proactive Pipeline Infrastructure: Operate with a high degree of autonomy to anticipate upcoming talent gaps, building continuous, passive pipelines for immediate and future organizational architecture.
- Candidate Experience Excellence: Ensure an insanely great, low-friction, and highly transparent candidate journey that protects and elevates our employer brand across regions.
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a strong track record dedicated to Business, Finance, Compliance, or Strategy roles within hyper-growth startups or fast-paced fintech environments, or consultancy.
- Regional Expertise: Proven track record of successfully navigating and sourcing within talent markets across both the United States and Latin America, including a deep understanding of regional compensation expectations and local hiring nuances.
- Bilingual Proficiency: Exceptional professional fluency in English and Spanish is mandatory for seamless stakeholder management and candidate evaluation across both regions.
- Executive Presence: Ability to collaborate without ego, push back constructively with data, and manage complex offer negotiations.
- ATS Mastery: Hands-on proficiency with modern recruiting tech stacks (experience with Gem is a plus) and a strict commitment to data integrity for pipeline metrics.
- Endless Curiosity: A natural desire to deeply understand the regulatory, compliance, and operational mechanics of our business to pitch the Félix vision authentically.
- These are the applicable requisites, although equivalent competencies in any of the above will also be considered.
- Competitive salary
- Initial stock options grant
- Annual performance bonus
- Health, dental, and vision plans
- Continuous learning opportunities
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Empowering opportunities for growth in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment
At Félix, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, training, compensation, benefits, and termination.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in business, finance, compliance, or strategy roles (startups/fintech/consultancy)
- Proven experience sourcing and hiring across the United States and Latin America with knowledge of regional compensation and hiring nuances
- Professional fluency in English and Spanish
- Executive presence with ability to influence stakeholders and manage complex offer negotiations
- Hands-on proficiency with modern recruiting tech stacks and strict ATS (Gem) data hygiene
- Experience with Gem (ATS)
- Experience coaching interview panels on unbiased, structured interviewing techniques
- Ability to use data and market intelligence to advise hiring decisions and optimize pipelines
- Proven ability to scale hiring operations and build proactive, passive candidate pipelines
- Curiosity and desire to understand regulatory, compliance, and operational aspects of the business
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The Company
What We Do
At Félix, we're building the financial ecosystem for Latin immigrants in the U.S., starting with a revolution in remittances. Our core product is an AI-powered chatbot built on WhatsApp, allowing our users to send money home as easily as sending a text message. We leverage cutting-edge technology like AI, blockchain, and stablecoins to make cross-border payments faster, more affordable, and more accessible than ever before. We are a hyper-growth Series B company, backed by over $100 million in funding from top-tier global investors, including QED, Castle Island, Switch Ventures, HTwenty, Monashees, and General Catalyst Customer Value Fund. This isn't just about the numbers; it's a testament to the trust our investors have in our vision and our team. Additionally, the Félix founders were selected as “Endeavour Entrepreneurs” and were recipients of the CrossTech Fintech Startups Award. We are a group of extremely talented and dedicated high-performers, united by our shared obsession with a single goal: empowering our customers.
